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I've been here from the beginning, just found that I registered as martm prior to the database crash and the forced reregistrations.

Also ran into Maunder back at CodeGuru which was before CodeProject existed.

I created the use of Elephant here on the site and from there popularised the use of Sunshine.

Michael Martin
Australia

"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004

(By the way - my question was about how you can be banned four times in a day. I found hamsters a bit lazy for that )

Enough votes saying the post was offencive and your account is locked out. Someone with the right powers comes along and unlocks it. Then more whiners vote it offensive and around in circles we go.

I mean, all I was doing was describe the love between a consenting Elephant and Maria Sharapova and everyone gets all girly.

Michael Martin
Australia

"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004

You did go into graphic detail on the grunting. That's bound to affect sensitive souls...

Well if the daft twat could keep her mouth shut while hitting a tennis ball I wouldn't have anything to describe.

Michael Martin
Australia

"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004

I removed the MSVC12 Python builds I had (they didn't work correctly for some reason), and I tried building Python 3.4.1 with MSVC11 earlier today, and I have the builds working, other than the 'pythonw' executable, which exits with error code 9009 (DNS_ERROR_RCODE_NOTAUTH, according to msdn[^] )

I have successfully installed a module that includes C extensions (Markupsafe).

I am going to continue toying around with this, and I think I am going to start a project on SourceForge to distribute these builds. I will post a link here when I get it online.

and I think I am going to start a project on SourceForge to distribute these builds.

Meh. Put it on GitHub. While I loathe git, I do find GitHub to be easy to use and, from my narrow perspective, the "in" thing, which is also pathetic because I don't like to do what the masses are doing. SourceForge seems sort of passe.

I am using the unmodified (other than project file upgrades) sources from Python.org, and don't have any real items to put into source control. If I get a complete build system set up I might put it on Github.

Chris Maunder once wrote a VB program - in C.
Chris Maunder knows what Sean wears under his mankini, but is much to polite to tell.
Salma Hayek has a photo of Chris Maunder on her wall
Chris Maunder can now fix bugs before they appear
The devil had a bet with Chris Maunder... and lost.

Chris Maunder knows what Sean wears under his mankini, but is much to polite to tell.

Chris Maunder knows when to use too.

Michael Martin
Australia

"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004

I'm trying to get a simple database up and running on Sql Server. I DON'T CARE WHAT VERSION. I simply cannot find the management tools entry for "Create elephanting database". It appears that over the past year, I have installed items that conflict. Fine, I'll clean it up. This is what I find in my Uninstall list - no less than 20 items related to this product. Mind you, I don't remember installing ANY of them. And my gin intake is sadly way way down.

I feel your pain, I have just finished removing all the SQL bits from my machine with the view to installing 2014, took hours. Then I ran a registry cleaner as the last time (2012) I installed SQL it bitched about express version, from VS being installed. Bloody nightmare.

Oh I got the registry cleaner from free tools recommended by Bill Woodruff, cleaned 7k+ invalid entries from the registry and I didn't even need the restore point .

What I have found is that I had installed various applications that made use of assorted versions of Sql Server. This is where the multitude of debris came from. Anytime I tried to remove one, I would receive an ominous warning about how something else depended on it. Finally, I just said f*** it and plowed on. And eventually, it was all removed.

So, I reinstalled 2005 (compatible with my VS 2008, yes, I know I need an upgrade), and now I am at the point of trying to connect to Sql Server via the mgt tool to create a database. Nothing gets me past an ominous message of not being able to connect....

No clues, nothing. Now, I have a good idea what I need to do, but really, it should not be this hard. I now have to stop playing and start working. Maybe next week.

Charlie GilleyStuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...

2014 installed without a problem, unlike 2008/2012 which both required various tweaks to get them to work properly. I can understand using 2005, like word I have not needed any of the newer features of SQL Server for some time.

Marc Clifton actually invented the Internet
Marc Clifton has a life size tattoo of Marc Clifton that covers his entire body
Marc Clifton is the sound of one hand clapping
Every time Marc Clifton frowns, a fairy dies
Marc Clifton was the life model for Pac Man
Marc Clifton wrote Shakespeare.

30 kids, a handful of mentors, and a couple of hours of programming fun!

it was surprising, to me, that the majority of the kids had no programming experience whatsoever - these were kids from about 7 through to 14 or so.

we used Scratch mainly - it's a great way of getting them doing something quickly.

A couple of the older kids looked at html and javascript and one played with Python.

considering these kids had to come in on a saturday (it's nothing to do with the school, this is entirely independent) it's amazingly popular - sold out in hours and we're arranging another three events (each is 6 weekly two=hour session) which are essentially already fully booked.

You can always take a look at LEGO MINDSTORMS and other more advanced robotic platforms, then they learn to program with the prize of something that moves which is more visual.

Years ago I saw this happening when I hired a guy whose hobby was about line following robotics. Being young fellas, we started working on his robot during the weekends and we enjoyed it a lot. It was really nice to work on those platforms using C and applying mechanics, electronics and software to get something really cool.

See here a video of our robot one day we changed the steering control software from a normal direct control to some kind of PID. Oh, and we changed the wheels to make it much more interesting (those wheels slipped a lot).

I may be dating myself, but it made me marvel at the resources that are available to anyone with the desire to learn software development either as a hobby or career. By resources, I mean those things that weren't around when I was a kid:
0: Easy access to a decent computer/device
1: Free IDEs for building applications
2: Easy to find code samples, documentation, tutorials, knowledge base, user community, etc..

Exactly, you're hundred percent correct. Developers who go to Stack Overflow to get help are often pissed off, when I started to use SO, same thing happened. I asked a question, instead of forwarding me to another thread they downvoted me and then I lost the ability to ask again.

It happens many times. Experts there are experts only because they know how to extract content from Wikipedia or MDN etc and then post code there and make fun of the new developers.

I don't agree that this is the standard of being a developer. A developer always look forward to help not to piss off newbies.

If they're so curious about their database size then they should not let anyone use it at all. People have Wikipedia and more over websites for each programming language, that had a forum made up of actual programmers. Who really know how to help. People like newbies are always pissed off on SO. Its more like just a professional q&a site not programming enthusiasts.

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